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Insurance Coverage, Insurance Defense Litigation, Appellate Practice, Municipal Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Arbitrations, Mediations, and Estate Planning.


University of Hawaii at Manoa
   (B.A. 1983)
Phi Beta Kappa, Taraknath Das
   Foundation Scholarship for History
Thomas H. Hamilton Award for Political
   Science, William S. Richardson
   School of Law, University of Hawaii at
   Manoa (J.D. 1986)
Law Review Executive Editor, Corpus
   Juris Secundum Award
American Jurisprudence Awards for
   Torts Process and Remedies


Hawaii State Bar Association
American Bar Association, Torts and
   Insurance Practice Section


Mr. Tanoue was a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward H. Nakamura, Hawaii Supreme Court.  He started his career working in insurance coverage and insurance defense litigation with Matsui, Chung, Sumida & Chang.  He later worked in the Department of the Corporation Counsel of the City and County of Honolulu.  His duties there included heading the appellate section and the trials division, trials, appellate practice, and advising various municipal agencies.  More recently, he was a partner in Tanoue & Tanaka, where he specialized in insurance coverage, insurance defense litigation, appellate practice, and general business law, before becoming one of the shareholders and directors of The Pacific Law Group.

Mr. Tanoue was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the William S. Richarson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he taught a class on pretrial litigation and procedure.  He has lectured on various law topics as an instructor at the Japan-America Institute of Management Science and is a frequent lecturer on insurance and tort law at the law school and at seminars benefiting professional and lay organizations.  He is active in high school debate, having been the debate coach for Iolani School since September 1994 and a judge for the Hawaii Speech League since 1979.